Targeted Group Meetings


–  Global SecurityAlliance Partner Summit

     –  CMSB Partner Summit
McAfee Network Access Control:
Connecting McAfee Network Security
Platform with McAfees Endpoint Security


  How to Add Security Controls that
Are Missing from Stateful
Firewall Deployments

Firewall User Group

  Firewall Office Hours
Network Security User Group

  Network Security Office Hours
McAfee Web Gateway:
In-Depth Technical Session


  Introducing McAfee Email Gateway 7
McAfee Labs Round Table

  Mobility Customer Advisory Round Table
Powering On While Under Attack:
Cyber Resiliency and Threat Landscape
in Critical Energy Infrastructure


  Endpoint Boot Camp and Beyond
McAfee R&D Innovation Fair
     



Partner Sumit at FOCUS
   
Global SecurityAlliance Partner Summit
The Power of Three
Monday, October 17 – Tuesday, October 18

The McAfee Worldwide Channel Group invites you to attend our partner keynote session where you will learn about The Power of Three: McAfee, Intel, and our Partner community. Find out how together we are creating innovative solutions for our customers and leading the fight against cybercrime.

Additional Power of Three Sessions – Programs, Opportunity, and Partners: Spend two days getting program and product roadmap updates, exclusive sneak-peeks of new technologies on the horizon, and tips on how to leverage the power of our new profitability and enablement programs to drive more business.

You’ll meet the people who are dedicated to helping you succeed: the McAfee channel executives from around the world, product, technical, operations, and regional sales teams.

Best of all, you get a great opportunity to network with other partners from around the world and down the street in the McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Program. Expand your reach through our Security Innovation Alliance, find out how other partners are tackling their customer’s security challenges, and learn about new markets you can enter.

Note: If you are a member of the McAfee SecurityAlliance program and you register for FOCUS, you get access to the Partner summit at absolutely no cost.

Global SecurityAlliance Partner Summit Agenda
Monday, October 17
9:00 am – 11:45 am General Session:
Opportunity
11:45 am – 12:45 pm Lunch / Information Foyer Open
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm General Session:
Acceleration
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Information Foyer Open
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm 1:50 Exec Q&A Sessions
8:30 pm – 11:00 pm The Partner Experience Party
(Invitation Only for McAfee SecurityAlliance Partners)
Tuesday, October 18
10:00 am – 12:00 pm FOCUS General Session:
Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group

Mike DeCesare and Todd Gebhart,
McAfee Co-Presidents
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm General Session:
Empowerment
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Theater Sessions
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm 1:50 Exec Q&A Sessions
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm FOCUS Welcome Reception
* Agenda subject to change.

Register to Attend FOCUS

Have a specific topic you want to discuss or learn about? We want to hear from you! Write to SecurityAlliance@McAfee.com.

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CMSB Partner Summit
Tuesday, October 18 – Thursday, October 20
(Invitation Only)
This exclusive event is dedicated solely to the exchange of ideas, needs, and strategies for McAfee’s consumer, mobile, and small business partners. All speakers and topics will explore how McAfee’s consumer technologies and strategic plans can help our partners achieve their business goals and keep their customers secure. This track is by invitation only. Please contact us at CMSBFocus11@mcafee.com if you have questions.

Consumer Mobile Partner Summit Hours
Tuesday, October 18 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, October 19 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, October 20 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
* Hours subject to change.

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McAfee Network Access Control – Connecting McAfee Network Security Platform with McAfee Endpoint Security
Tuesday, October 18
8:30 am – 10:00 am

Learn how McAfee Network Access Control enables enterprise customers to address key business problems and initiatives such as end device consumerization and compliance. This presentation offers an overview of the solution and discusses key use-cases and deployment best practices. This session also offers you the unique opportunity to meet with McAfee Product Management. Please Note: Interest in this session is extremely high, and space is limited. Be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure your admission.

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Firewall Demo – How to Add Security Controls that Are Missing from Stateful Firewall Deployments
Tuesday, October 18
8:30 am – 10:00 am

Join this fast-paced, technically deep session covering how to use McAfee Firewall Enterprise as a security gateway to protect critical assets in data centers and private/hybrid cloud environments. This session will address how to protect email, web, application, and services infrastructures, as well as how to provide true application-level control (like command filtering) as a core part of a layered defense approach. Learn about key features that only McAfee Firewall offers to protect high-assurance environments. Find out how to protect critical data in highly regulated and compliance-driven environments, and learn how to block connections from countries you don’t conduct business with. Please Note: Interest in this session is extremely high, and space is limited. Be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure your admission.

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Firewall User Group
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Join McAfee Firewall product leaders for this interactive session. This session will cover tips and tricks, recent feature innovations, and product vision and direction.

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Firewall Office Hours
Tuesday, October 18
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

If you either work on or own firewalls, we want to hear from you! Find out about product enhancements, and let us know which feature upgrades you would like to see in the future.

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Network Security User Group
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Join your peers for an open dialogue on the latest network security topics. McAfee, network security executives, product managers, and engineers will lead discussions on the McAfee network security portfolio: McAfee Network Security Platform, McAfee Network Access Control, McAfee Network Threat Behavior Analysis, and McAfee Network Threat Response. This information-packed session will cover product feature enhancements and product roadmaps, and will include an interactive Q&A session with McAfee experts and executives who will advise how to keep your business up, running, and secure.

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Network Security Office Hours
Tuesday, October 18
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Meet with the McAfee Network Security experts for an informal chat on our world-class network security products. Drop by to ask a question or discuss how McAfee solutions can help you increase your operational efficiency and reduce IT efforts.

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McAfee Web Gateway – In-Depth Technical Session
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Join McAfee Web Gateway experts for this in-depth technical session, and learn how one large customer deployed Web Gateway v7 in record time. The technical administrator for this organization will share best practices, tips, and tricks. McAfee Web Gateway experts will discuss authentication, monitoring, and troubleshooting and will help you get the most out of your Web Gateway deployment by sharing rules creation best practices and malware scanning options and controls. The session will conclude with a roadmap presentation and discussion, giving you the opportunity to share current challenges and thoughts on what you’d like to see in the future. This session will offer a unique opportunity to spend time with the Web Gateway experts and get all your questions answered.

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Introducing McAfee Email Gateway 7
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm; Repeat session: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Join us for a sneak preview of the next-generation email security solution, McAfee Email Gateway 7. This interactive session will offer a product overview, a preview of the new GUI, and discussion of product enhancements. A product demonstration will include newly enhanced and integrated technologies: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, data loss prevention, compliance, and encryption.

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McAfee Labs Round Table
Wednesday, October 19
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Leading researchers from McAfee Labs will discuss their latest research into malware, cybercrime, hactivism, and cyber war.

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Mobility Customer Advisory Round Table
Tuesday, October 18
9:00 am – 10:00 am

This round table session is an opportunity for customers to meet with a cross-functional McAfee team—product managers, product marketing managers, and solution engineers—to share their thoughts on McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management. Hear roadmap discussions, learn best practices from solution architects, and learn more about securing new mobile devices and operating systems. Please Note: Interest in this session is extremely high, and space is limited. Be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure your admission.

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Powering On While Under Attack: Cyber Resiliency and Threat Landscape in Critical Energy Infrastructure
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Operation Aurora, Stuxnet, Night Dragon, and Shady RAT comprise hundreds of compromises across the critical infrastructure sectors and across the attack spectrum from espionage to kinetic damage. Global critical infrastructures and key resources require protection that can outwit the well-funded, nefarious, and nimble cyber adversary. This is core to McAfee strategy: Security, authentication, and situational awareness at a micro and macro level within our chips, hardware, firmware, software, and overall cyber ecosystem, and including both machine real-time data sharing and human global public-private collaboration. We invite you to participate in a panel discussion led by McAfee Global Public Sector CTO Dr. Phyllis Schneck with members of The Pacific Northwest Laboratory to understand how to provide next-level security protection to defend against insidious and persistent threats targeting the manufacturing and process industry.

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Endpoint BootCamp and Beyond
Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm

This targeted group meeting will focus on protecting customer endpoints from today’s sophisticated threats that are designed to steal data and compromise businesses. Come to this action-packed meeting to hear from the product experts on best practices to properly secure your endpoints across your environment. Learn hands-on tips and tricks from McAfee experts about McAfee endpoint solutions: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee Endpoint Protection — Advanced Suite, McAfee MOVE AntiVirus, application whitelisting, and more. Find out how to optimize protection against the different threat vectors targeting your endpoints. Please Note: Interest in this session is extremely high, and space is limited. Be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure your admission.

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McAfee R&D Innovation Fair
Tuesday, October 18: 9:00 am – 10:00 am, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 19: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

The McAfee R&D Innovation Fair offers customers the opportunity to interact directly with McAfee product engineers. Preview a sampling of innovations to come with next-generation security and security management capabilities. By appointment only. Please email Kelly_Butterfas@McAfee.com or stop by on-site to schedule an appointment.

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For information on FOCUS track sessions, visit the Sessions Catalog page.

FOCUS 11
October 18-20, 2011

Highlights

Sir Richard Branson

Mark Your Calendars!
FOCUS 12

October 22-24, 2012
The Venetian/Palazzo Congress Center
Las Vegas, Nevada




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